National Blog - page 45

If there is one topic "progressives" are more reluctant to address during Black History Month than the role the second amendment played in the civil rights movement, are the racist roots of their beloved minimum wage laws.
These laws where [...]

Those looking for insights into Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon's philosophy and outlook may be interested in his remarks on "The Future of Conservationism," a panel discussion Mr. Bannon participated in back in September, [...]

Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military [...]

Personal is Policy, which is why many opponents of mass surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, and other violations of the forth amendment where disappointed when President Trump nominated surveillance state defender Mike Pompeo to serve as CIA [...]

The Senate continues to work on approving President Trump's cabinet nominations. Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin by a vote of 53-47.
The House is in session Monday through Friday. As in past weeks, the focus [...]

Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition of 133 free-market advocacy and business organizations in support of the Death Tax Repeal Act (H.R. 631/S. 205). Campaign for Liberty members who support repealing the death tax should call their [...]

As Congressional Republicans continued to debate whether to repeal ObamaCare with something good, something ok, or something bad, it might be a good time to look back at Ron Paul's columns "The Right Lessons from ObamaCare Meltdown" and [...]

Black History Month is an excellent time to revisit Damon Root's 2012 Reason Magazine essay Fredrick Douglas: Classical Liberal
In April 1865, as the Civil War was reaching its bloody climax, the abolitionist leader and escaped former slave [...]

"I told everyone what to do, they didn’t listen, so to heck with them!”
That quote is from my last conversation with Burt Blumert, who would have turned 88 this week. Burt is one of the unsung heroes of the liberty movement. In fact, it's [...]

Last month marked 44 years since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision declaring a constitutional right to abortion. Roe remains one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions. Even some progressive legal theorists who favor [...]